. 'Advanced Features of Find Files Containing Text' - Program Help
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Features of Find files Containing Text
I. Flexible and complete specification of where to look (Drives or directories).
II. Show each file containing text found on a pop up screen as it is found.
III. Show columns in the list with details of value found.
IV. Restriction of total bytes to search.
V. Saves all text search criteria in a single list. Automatically converts criteria used for a search in any file list window section or for a find files containing text search.
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Features of Find files containing text
I. Flexible and complete specification of where to look (Drives or directories).
A list of standard settings for Look In is supplied to allow quick selection. It will include:
- the directory list to be used at the next refresh (F5).
- the directory selected in the directory tree when F4 was pressed.
- the list for F5 plus the selected directory.
- each disk drive to allow a search on that single drive.
- All Drives (including floppys and CD Roms).
- All Fixed Drives (all hard disks but not Floppy drives or CD Rom drives).
The first three will only be different if multiple directories is specified.
The last entry in the list is always All Fixed Drives (all hard disks but not Floppy drives or CD Rom drives). This option can always be selected by pressing Alt+K to transfer to Look In selection and then the End key.
It is also possible to Look In the Current List. Either a list made using refresh (F5) or made using a previous search can be searched with a different or the same criteria.
See To look at the contents of the file and see the found value for each file found
Choose "Current List (Only Files Named)" to search only files that match the *-notation mask specified as Named.
Choose "Current List (All Files Listed)" to search all files ignoring the Named criteria.
To specify a different list of directories / drives press "Select Directory" button on the Enter Find Criteria screen.
Then Check Multiple Directories to enter a list of directories and files and then select the directories and files required.
See Select Directories/files to List
If you press OK on the Select Directories/files that list will be saved as the directory list to be used at the next refresh (F5) when if you then cancel the search.
The Include Subdirectories option can also be changed here.
This value is used always when a single directory is refreshed or searched.
When a list of directories and files is refreshed or searched, this value is the default value for any directory in the list for which a specific value is not specified.
See Select By File Type.
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Features of Find files containing text
II. Show each file containing text found on a pop up screen as it is found.
On Enter Find Criteria screen, check "Show Popup/Request ..."
When you press F4 to find files, each file will be shown together with the part of the text containing the value found.
When the first value is displayed you can search for and display other values in the same file using F2/F3.
Search for the next file by using F4.
To complete the list of all files without showing each file, press "List All Files.
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Features of Find files containing text
III. Show columns in the list with details of value found.
Columns can be added to the file list which show the value found, the byte number and the part of the text containing value found.
To show these columns:
a. Press options on the Enter Find Criteria screen.
b. Check the options "Show Found ...".
c. Select Look IN and press F4 to create the list.
The options must be selected before the list is made.
Only the first value found in each file will be shown.
The part of the text containing value found is 200 bytes of text starting 50 bytes before the found value.
To display this text, use a row Height that shows a few lines of text. Select a row and press Ctrl+W to increase the row height. Then choose "Copy Row Height to all .." from select menu to make all rows the same height.
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Features of Find files containing text
IV. Restriction of total bytes to search.
Search for files containing text can take a long time if you search many files and/or use a complex criteria.
A general selection of Named & Look In (e.g. * and C:\ or All Drives) will read many large files as well as smaller ones. It is then useful and quicker to search only the first bytes of each file.
Example1: If you are looking for text within a txt file created with Notepad, you need search only the first 40.000 bytes of each file. Notepad cannot create or change a file longer than 33.000 bytes.
Example2: If you are looking for text within an html document (web page), a search of only the first 150.000 bytes of each file will very probably find the required file. Html is rarely longer than this.
By restricting total bytes, to search the time for the search will be reduced.
Note however that if you restrict the total bytes to search and find nothing, you cannot conclude that the text does not exist in any file.
To make sure you must search again with the restriction removed.
To Restrict the number of bytes to search:
a. Press options on the Enter Find Criteria screen.
b. Enter Max No of Bytes.
NB The number entered will be rounded up to the next higher multiple of 10000 bytes without any warning message.
40.000 will cause only the first 40.000 bytes of each file to be searched
40.001 will cause only the first 50.000 bytes of each file to be searched
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Features of Find files containing text
V. Saves all text search criteria in a single list. Automatically converts criteria used for a search in any file list window section or for a find files containing text search.
When a search criteria is entered for either F3 or F4, the criteria is saved.
Later searches can then be made using the same criteria. Previous criteria can also be copied and changed.
To display the list of Criteria used, press Last Criteria on the Enter Find Criteria screen. Press Last Criteria again to hide the list.
The List includes criteria for all searches made with either F3 or F4 on all file list windows. Criteria are only added to the list when the search is done. If Cancel is pressed, the criteria will not be saved.
The most recent search will always be at the top of the list. Double click any criteria in the list to copy it.
Note that searches in directory tree or file list sections of the file list window allow less criteria than searches in the text section or F4 searches. When you search in a section with disallowed criteria, all criteria in the list will automatically be converted. A copy of a search with hidden (disallowed) criteria that have been removed will then be added to the top of the list since the criteria is different.
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Using Last Criteria, it is easy to copy criteria used to search text to search the file list or to find files containing text (and vice-versa).
Criteria are also easily copied between windows and saved from one session to the next.
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